Power outages, CT, severe weather!

143MPCo · Feb 25, 2016

Hope everyone and your tanks are up and running!!!

Vaiodude · Feb 25, 2016

Crazy winds last night in Bristol, fortunately we weathered the storm and no power outage!

143MPCo · Feb 25, 2016

I had a section of stockade fence down and a 100ft maple, UPS's are beeping with the power burps but ok otherwise this morning!

captc07 · Feb 25, 2016

Vaiodude said:
Crazy winds last night in Bristol, fortunately we weathered the storm and no power outage!

Same in Union. Wind was crazy! I left the house at 4:30 this morning so have to wait till I get home to see if anything happened in the yard.

chris82079 · Feb 25, 2016

lost power in new london for about 4 hours....everything is alive temps were at 71.6.

Mike_J · Feb 25, 2016

Back-up generators can be life-savers!

Vaiodude · Feb 25, 2016

Mike_J said:
Back-up generators can be life-savers!

And when you buy one it usually means you will never lose power again. LOL! Good insurance...

LeslieP · Feb 25, 2016

The lightening was CRAZY!! Almost constant flashes for an hour. And for once we did NOT lose power.

Brewman1987 · Feb 25, 2016

We lost power for maybe 10 minutes last night, but lost about a hour of sleep cause the dang dog.....

tdyrkacz · Feb 25, 2016

I started my tank in August. In November i bought a generator and got an electrician install the transfer switch... I've lived in this house for 10 years.... my wife thinks i only did it for the tank and not to protect the family...

I also bought the eco backup battery for the vortechs.

Gravityreefing · Feb 26, 2016

tdyrkacz said:
I started my tank in August. In November i bought a generator and got an electrician install the transfer switch... I've lived in this house for 10 years.... my wife thinks i only did it for the tank and not to protect the family...

I also bought the eco backup battery for the vortechs.

Lol..So which is it lol..we do crazy things to protect our tanks..

Triggreef · Feb 26, 2016

Vaiodude said:
And when you buy one it usually means you will never lose power again. LOL! Good insurance...

Too funny! That's exactly what we said eject we decided to buy a big generator right before that first big storm we had. Haven't needed it yet. I wonder if it will further ensure that we don't lose electricity if I actually take it out of the box.

gar732 · Feb 26, 2016

It's funny ^ that has been my exact experience. Today the power went out, they must have shut it down for repairs, and after an hour I was thinking I'd go fire it up. Then the power came back on. I've had it for a couple of years and hadn't needed to use it.

Mike_J · Feb 26, 2016

I live in Bloomfield and honestly I didn't even realize this storm had passed over during the night, I didn't hear a thing. Then again, AMBIEN® and I are best buds.

RWinfrey · Feb 26, 2016

We lost power for over a day my generator paid for itself the first time my wife was in the shower and lost power.....we are building a new house and we have already picked out the new one for the house ....best investment evvvva

dbl · Feb 26, 2016

Vaiodude said:
And when you buy one it usually means you will never lose power again. LOL! Good insurance...

Not to jump in on a CT thread, and I'm sorry you folks had to go through this, but when I read this I had to laugh.

We went through two summers of hurricanes in 2004-2005. The last one we were about 10 days without power. I went and bought a generator after that. Oddly, it's still in the box. We call it our lucky generator - haven't had a significant storm since.

Luckily it was before my reefing days. Now in all likelyhood the reef will be the reason it eventually comes out of the box!!!